Rules for Anchorites

Letters from Proxima Thule

I have a superpower. And that superpower is letting my coffee get cold.

I always have good intentions, but then I set it down and get involved in working and then seemingly instantaneously--POW, my coffee is ice cold.

Which means I drink a lot of not quite iced not really even warm coffee. And then I remember, when I taste the hot stuff, how good it is hot. justbeast laughs at me a lot about this, and my common cry for justice/the microwave is I USED MY SUPERPOWER.

But! I have found my kryptonite! And it is so awesome, I had to tell you guys. Because on Etsy no one can hear you scream it can be hard to find things that don't look like a 3rd grader made them for mother's day.

THIS defeats my superpower:

See how the bottom of the super-sweet rammy face is pointed? THIS MEANS I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN AND FORGET IT. I have to sit and enjoy my coffee all at once, which means not doing much else while I do it, which slows down my morning and is totally great. It's so odd how one little mug can actually affect my life for the better. Also I need a new superpower.

Also do you see how gorgeous that thing is? It is from this seller on Etsy, Chischilly Pottery, and I'm longing for more from them as we speak.

Hooray for awesome artists and their beautiful work. And for hot coffee, I say huzzah!

At the office-office, I have a little coffee-cup-sized hot plate, so as long as I'm at work, the coffee never gets cold, it just gets more Army coffee. And if you forget and leave it on, the next morning you have a cup of Coffee Glue.

At the home office, I either wind up microwaving it, or pouring in another half a cup of hot coffee. And the more I work at home, the more I think I really ought to get another one of those little coffee-cup-sized hot plates.

I was just the other day admiring a drinking horn in the ancient exhibit at the Walters art museum that had a ram head very like this on one side, and a donkey on the other (and signage about how it was all dual natured Bacchic ritual symbolic of the sober self and the drunk self.) It makes me terribly happy to know that people are out there making such things for modern use!

Mmm. :D The rhyton's *gorgeous*. I'm stalking their ovensafe bowls, though. Yeah, no dragons or greenmen on 'em, but just look at that curve and that blue... Shepherd's pie bowls, those are. Thank you for the link!

(I can see it now: tomorrow, the potters will have been swamped and swept clean. In two weeks, it'll happen again. Wonder whether they'll have any idea what happened... XD )